Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.